Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Hitch your wagon to a star.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.
The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Fine manners need the support of fine manners in others.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Our admiration of the antique is not admiration of the old, but of the natural.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.